- ivanafterall ( @ivanafterall@kbin.social ) 54•10 months ago
Nope, you fell for the classic sibling blunder:
What about INFINITY PLUS ONE!?
- CarbonIceDragon ( @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ) English47•10 months ago
Last time I saw this kind of challenge it was on reddit and I just replied with ℝ, but people brought up that this leaves out complex numbers. I’ll now contend, however, that any number not included in that isn’t real.
- morrowind ( @morrowind@lemmy.ml ) English18•10 months ago
You could use ℂ
- h6a ( @hernanca@beehaw.org ) English6•10 months ago
What about quaternions and octonions and …
- yetAnotherUser ( @yetAnotherUser@feddit.de ) English6•10 months ago
x
- Venia Silente ( @veniasilente@lemm.ee ) English20•10 months ago
Aren’t there numbers past (plus/minus) infinity? Last I hear there’s some omega stuff (for denoting numbers “past infinity”) and it’s not even the usual alpha-beta-omega flavour.
Come to think of it, is there even a notation for “the last possible number” in math? aka something that you just can’t tack “+1” at the end of to make a new number?
- Dr. Bluefall ( @drbluefall@toast.ooo ) English20•10 months ago
What you’re probably thinking of is Ordinal numbers.
As for your second question, I don’t think any “last number” could exist unless we explicitly declared one. And even then… I’m not sure what utility there would be in declaring a “last number”.
- Venia Silente ( @veniasilente@lemm.ee ) English1•10 months ago
I mean, whoever gets to declare a “last number” that works certainly will get some bragging rights. After all, you can only ever declare one.
…Right?
(I know math is very weird)
- humanplayer2 ( @humanplayer2@lemmy.ml ) English16•10 months ago
Which of the infinities? There are many, many :D
The smallest infinity is the size of the natural numbers. That infinty, Aleph zero, is smaller than the infinity of the real numbers, Aleph one. “etc.”
- Venia Silente ( @veniasilente@lemm.ee ) English5•10 months ago
Which of the infinities? There are many, many :D
Oh no! Please don’t tell me there are infinity infinities!
- weker01 ( @weker01@feddit.de ) English4•10 months ago
Unfortunately yes there are and it’s a very big infinity of infinties…
- Venia Silente ( @veniasilente@lemm.ee ) English1•10 months ago
Oh wow and here I was hoping…
…actually, I don’t know what, but I was hoping.
- Leate_Wonceslace ( @Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•10 months ago
Hi! I’m a mathematician, and if you want to know more about infinity, I recommend this video: https://youtu.be/23I5GS4JiDg
- Venia Silente ( @veniasilente@lemm.ee ) English2•10 months ago
After reading how this thread is going I’m half expecting this to be a Kurzgesagt video or something equally “cutesy existential dread” inducing lol. Let’s see what do I find!
- CJOtheReal ( @CJOtheReal@ani.social ) English17•10 months ago
Doesn’t include “i”
- Godort ( @Godort@lemm.ee ) English31•10 months ago
i isn’t a real number, you imagined it
- BolexForSoup ( @BolexForSoup@kbin.social ) 20•10 months ago
From gatekeeping to gaslighting in 2 comments. Not bad!
- Uncle_Bagel ( @Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social ) English6•10 months ago
What a girlboss
- callyral [he/they] ( @callyral@pawb.social ) English4•10 months ago
not a real number
- Bizarroland ( @Bizarroland@kbin.social ) 9•10 months ago
You also have to remember to put the +C at the end
- callyral [he/they] ( @callyral@pawb.social ) English7•10 months ago
*
- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) English6•10 months ago
Pi
- edinbruh ( @edinbruh@feddit.it ) English5•10 months ago
U
- driving_crooner ( @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ) English2•10 months ago
Ω
- Leate_Wonceslace ( @Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•10 months ago
Fred.
(∀x:Number(x)=T)(Name(x)=“Fred”)
I name every number Fred.
- ColdWater ( @ColdWater@lemmy.ca ) English2•10 months ago
Didn’t it 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9?
- AnneBonny ( @AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•10 months ago
i
- ILikeBoobies ( @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) English1•10 months ago
Depends on the bit limit